The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-03-02
MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1881

tor. after their passage by the House.
the strue inwardness" of TIE pretended
dislike OF ''TilIman dlctation" IS laid
bare, and this immaculate Senator, y
who votes Tor personal aggrandizement
ana fhe family rather than the public
good. is ''hoist by bis own petard." He
can discover no harm that can come TO
South Carolina by the most thorough
organization Of farmers. except that
Captain Dawson might be elected to the
United States Senate.
Suppose we did elect the editor of the
News and Courier, what harm would
follow? What has the United States
Senate got to GO with the reorganization
of the department Of agriculture? Sup
pose An. Tindal, Nh. Donaldson, Mr..
Norris, Colonel Stackhouse and al OF us
WHO have been leading the farmers
movement got !; good Sat office apiece
and Dec2m@ "taX-catcrs" for q time,
what harm would follow? Colonel YOU
mans did not pause to picture tie ruin
that would inevitably result; he lid not
mention the wailing among the disin-
ileritel members Of the royal family
whose places would be thus usurped by
these plebcian farmers" His afrighted
imagination only sees that some one not
named YoumanS IS to go to the United
States Senate, and his mind is made up
-Brutls was not more determined when
he slew C;csar-and he votes to postpone
the bill 'twith such emphasis and evident
delight that it created 4 ripple OF laugh
ter ali over the Senate. % Actua!cd by
these highly patriotic and yirtuous mo-
tiyes with WHIT a magnarimous air he
poses at the champion Of injured inno-
ccncc and refuses to slap our efficient
and patriotic b3ard Of agriculture IL the
face" How blind he is to their short
comings and those Of the commissioner.
He fails to point out III what way We
farmers are benefited. He does not
show where the $40, coo they have spent
has gone, and he cannot show any
adequate result of its expenditure. He
rehearses the old story OF an agricultural
college and constitutional convention
costing $500, 900. just because he saw it
IL the News and Courier.
Tic old story about the ':httle fellows
ut the Globc Hotel and the Sheppard
Dawson-Tillman combination has served
its uses and only acts as padding for
Colonel Youmans's lengthy screed. 1t
put TIC ''pea under the wrong th!mble"
III the iug1,st Convention, and those
who benefited by it are welcome to their
victory. Had i been the politician l am
charged with being I would have re-
NAMED away from the State Convention
and espoused no mans candidacy. But
vii! say FOR the benefit Of those farm
egs who We're bamboozied b. it last
August, and :gilo would not .''co!nblne"
on anybody, that have since been told
by :; leader and manager OF the Ring
party in Columbia that ''thcy knew it
vas Z lie, 3ut that tlIey worked 1t for all
It WAS worth, and shat when that failed
u >tamnedc /; farmer delegation they
would ask ,auntingIy, How has Iillmaa
ordered you to voEc: ana the poor
g1eclhorus, rescntiug this irnputatlon
upon tuc;r independence, would come
oIc:, or be more than ever resolved not
to he led by "Iiliman tlictation. / am
glad to know we farmers are getting
better acquainted and becoming better
politicians, and no such "thimble-riS-
ging" viii answer next time.
Let tire farmers OF the State who SYM
pataize with progress, economy and re-
t:cnohment, &nti are disciples OF Henry
George" perfect their organizations,
and keep l;p the touch OF elbows. Let
Us aave I ial! representation from every
county at tic meeting of the Farmers
Association next November, and arrange
our pans for the next years campaign.
Then ii the oligarchy still refuses our
demands We can be prepared to pit or
ganiZation against organization, and
honesty against chicanery and "thimble-
rigging, and see what effect will follow.
[ think we not only can ''reorganize the
South, but the State Government, too.